OPINION
BBC Scotland’s chief sports writer Tom English has suggested that Stewart Robertson is deflecting blame to the BBC after Rangers dropped more points in the Scottish Premiership title race over the weekend. The Gers’ managing director has aimed several accusations at the broadcaster in what certainly does seem like a strategically timed interview that comes after both Alfredo Morelos and Allan McGregor were handed bans by the Scottish FA and Steven Gerrard’s men dropping points against against St Johnstone. English is clearly not a fan of what Robertson has said, and Rangers fans have been quick to hit out at the journalist. Fair enough they are standing by their club for their stance on the BBC, but this whole argument really is stupid and completely unwarranted. Robertson has diverted some attention away from the pitch to his comments about the broadcaster, so maybe English is right? It will be interesting to see whether STV or the Daily Record get blamed if the Gers crash out of the Scottish Cup on Wednesday night.
On Saturday Rangers dropped league points for the 11th time this season. Now trail Celtic by eight. Steven Gerrard very critical of his players again. Here’s Stewart Robertson criticising the BBC https://t.co/XsWRR2vSj8
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) February 19, 2019
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/sibauchinshee/status/1097858133962248192
You tweet about rugby like an actual journalist, but you tweet about football like any other troll. Baiting for reactions. It's pathetic.
— Blue5 are 5till blue ?? (@BluesStill) February 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/Do_The_Turtle/status/1097886504892985349
So it’s only you and the BBC who can set the agenda Tom ? Interesting comment ?
— Kenny (@kennylanglea) February 19, 2019
Tom being Tom…best just ignoring him & thenTom will become irrelevant very quickly.
— Dave C (@bigdavec1971) February 19, 2019
Scott Brown got away with another shocking challenge at the weekend, thats 3 in the past few months hes got away with. Here Tom is slating a managing director instead of slating these ref decisions like they did with Morelos at new year.
— Rangers Banter (@RangersBanter17) February 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/supercooper1872/status/1097873138124173313